Sub-genre
Survival
🪓 Every survival title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
2812 titles
Alien: EarthSeries
›TV-MA2025 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis
When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
The Shannara ChroniclesSeries
›TV-142016 · Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2 seasons · Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett
A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.
Southern Comfort
›R1981 · Thriller, War · 106m · Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
The Boston Strangler
›R1968 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 116m · Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
SwarmSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Crime, Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Dominique Fishback
Murder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.
Eye CandySeries
›TV-142015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Victoria Justice, Casey Deidrick, Kiersey Clemons
Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.
The Horror of Dolores RoachSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Drama, Comedy · 1 season · Justina Machado, Alejandro Hernandez, Kita Updike
After an unjust 16-year prison sentence, Dolores Roach returns to a gentrified Washington Heights, where she reunites with an old stoner friend, Luis, who lets her live and work as a masseuse in the basement under his empanada shop. When the promise of her newfound stability is quickly threatened, “Magic Hands” Dolores is driven to shocking extremes to survive.
The Sadist
›NR1963 · Horror, Thriller · 92m · Arch Hall Jr., Richard Alden, Marilyn Manning
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
Cloverfield
›PG-132008 · Action, Thriller, Science Fiction · 85m · Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
From Dusk Till Dawn
›R1996 · Horror, Action, Crime · 108m · George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel
After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
The Mist
›R2007 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 126m · Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden, Toby Jones
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
The Black Phone
›R2022 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Ethan Hawke
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
Ready or Not
›R2019 · Horror, Comedy · 96m · Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.
Nope
›R2022 · Horror, Science Fiction · 130m · Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Triangle
›R2009 · Horror · 99m · Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
Bones and All
›R2022 · Horror, Romance, Drama · 131m · Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
Soylent Green
›PG1973 · Science Fiction, Crime, Mystery · 97m · Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
Dog Soldiers
›R2002 · Horror, Action, Thriller · 105m · Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby
A band of soldiers is dispatched to war games deep in the woods. When they stumble across a rival team slaughtered in camp, they realize they're not alone.
Near Dark
›R1987 · Horror · 94m · Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
›G1954 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.
The Walking Dead: Dead CitySeries
›TV-MA2023 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 3 seasons · Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Aimee Garcia
Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
Beast
›R2018 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 107m · Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Trystan Gravelle
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Pretty Little Liars: Original SinSeries
›TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery · 2 seasons · Bailee Madison, Chandler Kinney, Maia Reficco
Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped the blue-collar town of Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a group of disparate teen girls finds themselves tormented by an unknown Assailant and made to pay for the secret sin their parents committed two decades ago, as well as their own.
Mute Witness
›R1995 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 95m · Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.
